I have completed building my first Saturnine Terminator from the Saturnine boxed set. And I hated it.
Look, I am hardly a newbie. I'm fairly old. I've been in the hobby decades. And this is one miniature that I genuinely did not enjoy building. It was not that it was too hard, but I found myself thinking that "these parts should have just been a single one on the sprue". There were many instances of this.
Some of the parts are outright fiddly. Positioning all the legs ball-and-socket joints was a challenge. One that I can cope with, but also one that I ended up not being impressed by. I think I build a very static looking Saturnine next rather than one with a bent knee. The cork I used was too high for the miniature in hindsight, but the glue held it tight already by the time I realised it wasn't going to work out very well. So this one is caught mid-stride in a natural swing (left arm behind, right leg behind) looking like the plasma is about to be unleashed.
The shoulder pads were also a pain. I found it better to glue the big two sections together first, and then add the support underneath, followed by the piping over the top. I also did not like the feet.
What I did like was that the weapons were snug enough to be interchangeable (but I don't think I will be changing them). Choice of heads was nice to have as well.
I would actually have liked more range of weapons to be honest. It feels like the two ranged weapons and the fist just isn't really enough options for a terminator.
Five more to build, but I might leave them till I get rid of the glue from my fingertips caused by this one at least!!!
7 comments:
I really like the pose! Looks great stepping over the rocks!
Interestingly enough, the method you used to build the shoulderpads is how they recommend to do it. they released a guide amending how to build them because people complained. Awesome pose though
Have fun building the plastic Mechanicum if you ever do - they share the "these parts should have just been a single one on the sprue" to the max. Each model that isn't the Tech Thralls take incredibly long to build. I rarely give up on projects but after a Triaros, 6 Thallax and 2 Castallex I tapped out.
Thank you!!
Yeah, I saw that afterward (typical!). I'm pleased with the pose in the end.
Mental note to avoid Mechanicum for the moment then!
I think the fists of the Saturnine Terminator was bad enough for me for the moment!
I've built 10 now(6 regulat and 4 pretor/ command squad)Here's the hack. Cut out the bits for the legs all together. Glue them, the combine them later. Then put together the 2 sets of torso bits. At that point you can start using the xl paint handle with the arms and plan poses.
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